Audionamix – Audio Archives
Audionamix, also known as Mist Technologies, is a technology company in the cutting-edge field of signal processing and High Definition audio treatment. Audionamix is a proud member of the Digital Entertainment Group and the Association of Moving Image Archivists and capably contributes to audio archives institutes. Developing audio archives and digital contents libraries will make it generally easier to extract information from an audio signal. It will be possible to use this generic pre-treatment tool for any kind of request regarding some audio contents. This library is based on research and works in single-sensor sources separation words lead by Audionamix.
Project Memories was presented by Audionamix in the sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6) of the European Union. It gathers seven partners complementing each other: three SMBs (Audionamix, Memnon, Pubgene), three audio archives institutes (Radio Suisse Romande, Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound, UNESCO) and one research lab (Technion). Memories aim at producing a program valorizing audio archives, and articulates around two axes–the structuring of an audio archives and digital contents library and developing access strategies to multimedia data through contents.
While structuring necessary audio archives libraries, Audionamix adhered to the other priority of its Project Memories program which aimed at indexing totally two databases, responding to the requirements and needs expressed by their audio archives library clients and partners. The first pool gathered only musical contents, whereas the other one included broadcast-news data types. Audionamix’ Project Memories program spanned a period of three years and came to a conclusion in June of 2009.
Based in Paris, Los Angeles, and New-York, the audio archives providers of Audionamix employ more than fifteen people, each of whom has a diversified and experienced background in high tech research, software development and the entertainment industries. Audionamix won the first prize in 2003 of the Annual Competition of the Ministry of Research of France where the company is headquartered. Its research team works together with the best laboratories in the world, such as Telecom ParisTech in France and the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel. The Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound (NIRS) manages the largest private collection of recorded music in Europe (the bulk of the collection represents about ninety cubic meters, or forty two metric tonnes). NIRS is interested in the setting up of an efficient audio archives solution to handle its database.
Audionamix works closely with most important French radio in Switzerland, Radio Suisse Romande, which strongly believes in the use of intelligent audio technologies to manage its audio archives. As an active promoter of several programs for the preservation of the audio digital cultural heritage, Unesco is interested in the work of Audionamix that enables the efficient use of large numerical databases of audio archives contents. PubGene develops products that organize audio archives text information and is a technical partner of Audionamix. Memnon also offers audio archives a range of services to digitize, restore, preserve and provide easy accessibility to classic and current sound recordings in any format.
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